Spacehopper - Challenge Students With Geography Puzzles Based on Street View

Spacehoppe r is a new geography game that I recently tried on the recommendations of Keir Clarke and Larry Ferlazzo . Spacehopper features ...

Digital Explorer - Follow Expeditions and Learn About Science

Digital Explorer is an organization that helps students learn about science and geography through the study of expeditions around the world...

Mission Map Quest - Create Your Own Geography Games

Russel Tarr is on a roll this month. Earlier this month he released a great tool for creating fake text message exchanges between historica...

National Geographic's Tools for Adventure Introduces Students to GIS

National Geographic Education has a nice interactive activity for introducing students to GIS and using maps to interpret information. Maps:...

125 Years of Exploration in Pictures

The National Geographic Society turns 125 years old later this month. One of the things they've done to mark the occasion is publish gal...

A Short Guide to Google Maps for Educators

In the last month or so I have had a lot of requests to share my short guide to Google Maps for Educators. Since I originally published the ...

Video and Infographic Explaining the Difference Between United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England

Back in July I shared CGP Grey's video that explains the difference between England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. Today, Cool...

DIY for Kids - Do Challenges, Earn Skills

DIY.org is a neat website on which kids can find dozens of DIY projects that they can do on their own or with their parents. DIY.org provid...

Uncharted.fm Offers Great Geography Lessons

Uncharted.fm offers a series of progressively more difficult geography lessons and quizzes. In the beginning you're limited to one regi...

Overlap Maps - Quickly Compare the Size of Countries

Overlap Maps is a free service that can be used to quickly compare the size of countries, states, provinces, and some bodies of water. To c...

Maps of Vanishing & Endangered Languages

In the July issue of National Geographic Magazine there is a feature titled Vanishing Voices . The feature is abut languages that are in dan...